CNN didn’t say that toothpaste doesn’t exist or isn’t available in Venezuela. More importantly, a video from the state-run subsidized market doesn’t disprove the reality of critical shortages of basic goods in the country.

On the one-year anniversary of the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, England, RT has issued an anniversary report seeking to shift blame away from the Kremlin by targeting open-source investigator Bellingcat.

Russian actor Aleksey Serebryakov has come under fire on Russian state media after criticizing the Kremlin for “inciting conflicts” at home and abroad. It is not the first time. Labelling dissidents “anti-Russian” is part of the broader pattern to alienate and silence government critics.

To some it was just a joke but in Russia Elon Musk’s phrase put him in the Kremlin’s propaganda dictionary, where one possessive pronoun divides the world into good and evil. But it did not make the entrepreneur a Russian spy.

Russian state media has lambasted the Metro Exodus video game for allowing players to take aim at statues of Vladimir Lenin. But from Russian President Putin to far-right bloggers, taking pot shots at the Soviet leader is a national past time.

While Ukraine’s “decommunization” law is not without controversy, countries have the right to rename cities and other geographical features as they wish. Nothing in the law requires new city names to be based on historical titles.

While Ukraine's banning of Russian citizens from entering the country to take part in the OSCE election monitoring mission is "without precedent," it does not violate international law, and there will still be OSCE observers. Only two members of the team were Russian citizens.

Maria Zakharova

Spokesperson, Russian Foreign Ministry

"We are seeing a massive campaign on Russian information resources in Germany. It is being conducted with the German state’s participation, and a campaign is being staged to suppress the voice of the Russian and Russian language media."

The German press’s criticism of Russia Today (RT) Deutsch and Sputnik is not a staged campaign but the reaction of independent journalists against Kremlin’s use of media means for propaganda purposes and disinformation. Similar concerns arise in France and Britain.

Konstantin Kosachev

"Guaido’s status cannot be determined from abroad, whether by the president of the United States or any other country. It can be determined only by the people of Venezuela and only by constitutional means. In this sense, for Russia the presidential status of Guaido doesn’t exist."

The U.S. is just one of many countries and international organizations which recognize the interim presidency of Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Guaido. Many of these countries didn't recognize Maduro’s controversial reelection in 2018. His original term ended on January 10, 2019.

WikiLeaks mischaracterized the MSNBC host and RIA Novosti enhanced the misinformation. Both relayed only part of the program, ignoring actual U.S. government warnings cited in the program. Maddow’s concerns about a potential Russian threat were not baseless.